Last night, the IT network of ASST Rhodense has suffered a major cyber attack which involved all the offices (garbagnate Milanese, Bollate, Rho and Passirana and territorial services of the Garbagnatese, Rhodense and Corsichese district areas).
The Management – the Company says – in concert with the technicians, is working to verify the situation while guaranteeing essential services. The ASST has organized a user reception service in each facility, in order to inform them and take care of any requests. The provision of already scheduled outpatient services is guaranteed, except those of nuclear medicine, for example MOC, radiology (CT scan, MRIs, X-rays and mammograms) and laboratory analysis (including blood tests).
The activities relating to non-urgent surgical interventions and booking activities at the CUP are suspended – adds the ASST Rhodense – of scheduled hospitalization and sampling points (TAO patients can contact the reception of the Bollate, Garbagnate and Rho hospitals for information on how to carry out the tests necessary for the management of the therapy). The emergency rooms in Garbagnate and Rho remain active (only the dispatch of ambulances has been suspended) but, in cases of urgency, citizens are advised to contact other facilities. It is currently not possible to estimate the recovery times of the company network and we ask for everyone’s collaboration, especially in these first moments of reorganization of activities.
The Lombardy Region involved Aria technicians who intervened on site this morning and activated the regional Cyber Security Task Force. The National Cybersecurity Agency was also informed and is sending its specialists. Analysis activities are underway to understand the ways in which the attack took place, verify the availability of ‘clean’ backups and the situation of all the individual systems and prepare a recovery plan for data, services and applications.
